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Old cremation video in Vietnam unrelated to Taiwanese celebrity's death

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Taiwanese star Barbie Hsu died from pneumonia during a vacation in Japan over the Lunar New Year holiday.

Social media users falsely claimed a video shared thousands of times was filmed at her cremation ceremony in Japan .

But the clip was taken in a Vietnamese crematorium in December 2024 and has no connection to Hsu .

Hsu passed away from a respiratory illness on February 2 .